Cantor’s Body (a reading of Grundlagen)
The mathematician Georg Cantor published “Grundlagen…” in 1883, a major text of which we propose another reading.
27 July 2024
Tagged: philosophy
Philosophy
Can a chatbot “understand”?
According to some researchers, the largest chatbots somehow “understand” the texts they handle. What exactly does this mean?
3 February 2024
The Informatization Age (2) Process
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s welcomed a new technical system in line with the so-called “Process Philosophy”.
5 August 2023
GPT-3, LaMDA, Wu Dao… The blooming of “monster” AIs
Neuromimetic AIs can now write, draw, compose music… Far from being “conscious”, what do they tell us about being human?
1 October 2022
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and the Others
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
15 January 2022
Welcome in the Metaverse
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
14 August 2021
The Body of René Thom (singularities)
In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.
20 March 2021
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
The Brain is an Edge (not a Center)
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
11 July 2020
Gilbert Simondon, “philosopher of information”?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
2 May 2020